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...agents opened the safe-deposit box in November 1973, they found 16 bills in the cache that had not been in circulation in 1971. Confronted with this evidence, Jacobsen said, he decided to spill the whole truth...
...Japan's leading environmentalist, goes further: if Chisso gets the loan, he says, a wrong precedent would be set. He fears that the government may be asked for low-interest loans by other polluters-Mitsubishi Oil Co., for example, which was responsible for a serious oil spill at the Mizushima industrial complex (TIME...
...important document and frustrate censorship at the same time. The diaries are indeed uncharitable: they depict Wilson making major policy decisions without informing the Cabinet, the Queen showing more interest in discussing her Corgi dogs than affairs of state, civil servants hiding important documents from Grossman. But they spill few state or industrial secrets; so prosecution under the Official Secrets Acts or on other grounds would be difficult. Besides, during last year's election campaign Wilson had vowed he would narrow the Official Secrets Acts and make government processes more open. The night before the first Grossman installment appeared...
...really plotting his assassination, and in a weird, near-surrealist climax the Cuban President announces his resignation ("due to the success of the guerilla groups in the Guantanamo and Santiago areas") at his glittering New Year's Eve party. Hordes of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns spill out of the ballroom, down the marble steps of the collonnaded Presidential Palace, stampeding to the relative safety of the American Embassy compound. (Michael, of course, has his own chauffeur waiting to take him to his private plane). It only lasts for a moment, but the violence of the first...
Strong skiing seems to be the style of the year. Sophomore slider Eric Jewett shows sharpening skill and should slip into the money if psyche doesn't shake his supple swerving. Unfortunately Saturday's syncopated serpentine sent the sinewy skiers into a spiralling spill...